Class 11 History - Themes in World History - Chapter The Industrial Revolution NCERT Solutions | Indicate how the supply of raw materials

What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?

How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
 

Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.

How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?

What were the interesting features of the inventions of this period?

Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?

Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.

Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?

Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?

Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth century Europeans.

Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?

Describe a journey from Samarqand to Damascus, referring to the cities on the route.

What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?

Keeping the nomadic element of the Mongol and Bedouin societies in mind, how, in your opinion, did their respective historical experiences differ? What explanations would you suggest account for these differences?

Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.

What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?

Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?

Describe two features of early feudal society in France.